Miners and millhands : work, culture, and politics in Princely Mysore
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Miners and millhands : work, culture, and politics in Princely Mysore
Sage Publications, 1998
- : USA : hbk
- : India : hbk
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-320) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This pioneering work is a comparative study of the work processes, culture and politics of two major centres of industrial production in Princely Mysore - Bangalore and the Kolar Gold Fields - in the first half of the twentieth century. Janaki Nair develops a unique perspective on the relations of power and authority which were forged in a princely state under colonial rule.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: KOLAR GOLD FIELDS
Dangerous Labour
Crime, Work and Punishment
Visions of Plenitude in the Margins of Subsistence
Representing Labour
The Strike of 1930
Political Worlds of Workers
PART TWO: BANGALORE
Production Regimes and Cultural Processes
Labouring Lives in the City
Learning to Strike
The Seductions of Nationalism
Conclusion
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